St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-01
THE LAW AND LIQUOR.
The Two Flowed Continuously All
Through Last Night in the Court
House at Chicago.
Tired Workers Engaged in Making Out
New Doodle Warrants Amply Re-
freshed With Beer.
A New York Postal THIEF Failed In an
Attempt to Steal
$4,000.
Further Details Regarding the Ex-
press Robbery and Shooting of
the Messenger.

CHICAGO, March 31.--At 3 o'clock this
afternoon the special grand jury came into
the criminal court, where Judge Anthony
was sitting, and returned three patches of
Indictments against persons implicated in
the county frauds, there being total Of
tWenty-three preSentments. At 3 o'clock
JudgeAnthony left forhome, saying he would
not come back, even if sent for. He ar
ranged with the clerk of the court as to the
amount OF bail in each case, and bonds will
be taken just as they were in the case of
Dan Wren. by the clerk accepting the word
of the bOndsmen for the appearance tO-mor-
row of the indicted parties. The grand
jury has put in just twenty-one days Of ac-
tive work in the boodlers' cases. and yet the
investigation is unfinished. Nearly every
hour furnishes something in the way of a
new clue, and the frauds upon frauds en-
braced in
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
to plunder Cook county seem to multiply
as the inquiry advances. The magnitude
of the work and the difficulty encountered
in mastering the facts into presentaDle
narrative may be understood when the
jury's duties are considered. Frequently
they have remained in continuous session
from II a. III. to 1880 p. n., and having
kept this up almost without interruption
for tWenty-One days, it would seem to be
about time for final presentments. Instead
of the last batch of true bills being forth
coming and the name of every boodler on
the indicted list, there is an imminent likeli-
hood that the inquiry may be extended and
that the session of the special grand jury
may be prolonged ten days OF two weeks
more. State Attorney Grinnell told a re-
porter to-day that he had reached no con-
clusion as to what steps he would take rel
ative to keeping up the present investiga-
ton. but acknowledged that another week
or more might be profitably expended in
getting at the bottom facts. Should it be
decided to go on with the work, Mr.. Grim
nell said an order to that effect from the
court would suffice. and that the session of
the present jury could be extended with all
legal requirements.
AS soon as it became known that the bills
had been found there was
A GRAND RUSH
for the sheriff's Office. County commits
sioners, local politicians. newspaper men
and friends of the boodlers were the first to
arrive. There was much excited talk and
eager questioning as to who the unfortu-
mates were. A full force of deputies were
kept on hand for three hours. At last it
was conceded that capiases could not posi-
bly, be got ready soon enough to overcome
the vigorous protest of Sheriff Matson
against serving them at time when it
might be necessary to lock any prisoners
up over night Reluctantly all arrests
were put off until morning. Except the
jurors and Mr.. GrinnelPs staff no person
was allowed to know positively the names
of the indicted. There is no doubt,
however. that the list is COM
posed of five members of the pres
ent board of county commissioners.
three ex-commissoners and number of
contractors and county employees, neceSsi-
'tatmgtiE all eighteen new arrests i'll addi-
ton to the commissioners, eX-commisSion-
ers, wardens and others already under bail.
at late hour tonight the states attorneys
Office was still open. Coupes and cabs kept
rolling up in front of the criminal court
building, and a man carrying typewriter
and followed by woman would alight from
each one making directly for the grand jury
room. Extra deputies were stationed at
the foot of the stairs to keep reporters and
other unwelcome visitors from getting any
higher than the ground floor. Large guam
titles of bottled beer went up during the
evening and every indication was seen of an
all night session. Another huge batch of
indictments will probably be presented in
court tomorrow.